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...president of the board of aldermen raised his left hand until it was fourteen when his wife convinced him that it is better to choose a college early than to try to make sense out of Aldous Huxley so they married and raised children who raised hell ten feet toward heaven by gilding the front stairs of the devil's bathing apartment so that he slipped on the wet paint--and it is really not often that the devil slips. And that my children (as the only honest man in the town said) is something. Nor was he completely without...
Illiteracy figures as quoted in the current "World's Work" credit Germany with the lowest proportion of illiterates in her population with the figure of five hundredths of one percent. Switzerland, Great Britain, United States, and France follow in order, the last named housing a population fourteen percent illiterate. All of these are countries in which democratic government has attained high development through many and troublous experiments. In Italy, where representative government has been at best a bad dream and at worst a nightmare, the percentage of illiterates reaches thirty-one, in Spain fifty-eight, and in Russia sixty-nine...
...Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad highway of youth and of romance, the highway scorned by authorities on comparative literature, by pedants and by profiteers...
...Mississippi in the old days, should be dull. For a gambler's anecdotes to be flat it is unforgiveable. Every now and then some life breaks through the crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless a string...
...pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals are using music in their tuberculosis wards, he said. "With proper care, diet, sanitation and music we can all live to be 150 years...